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[rich adder]

or that

[naive pawn]

but you could also just make a struct that holds your values and make a list of that

[rich adder]

to tbh you can easily just make a List and custom struct

[naive pawn]

lmao

[rich adder]

jinx

[fleet venture]

idk

sounds hard

[naive pawn]

really isn't

[rich adder]

nah its easy

[fleet venture]

i dont really know how structs work

[rich adder]

same as a class

[naive pawn]

do you know how classes work?

[fleet venture]

yes

its like diff with memory tho

[rich adder]

you use structs all the time

[naive pawn]

structs are classes but a little different

[rich adder]

Vector3 is a struct

[fleet venture]

oh

[naive pawn]

float is a struct

[fleet venture]

they are like value types

[naive pawn]

yeah

[rich adder]

its just for grouping fields and methods togther

[fleet venture]

is that the only difference?

[naive pawn]

value types and structs are synonymous in c#

[rich adder]

yea they live on the stack usually

[fleet venture]

ohhhhh i didnt know that

[fleet venture]

ye this is were you lose me XD

[naive pawn]

well i mean, only when they're local

[fleet venture]

stack instead of what?

heap?

[rich adder]

dw about that part rn its just how its handled in the back end

[naive pawn]

yes

[rich adder]

heap stores the address to the location

[fleet venture]

ohhhhh

[rich adder]

reference types

[fleet venture]

ye

thats the reference

makes sense

[naive pawn]

values of reference types are stored as references to the actual object, that's on the heap
values of value types are stored as the value directly

[fleet venture]

ah okay

[rich adder]

ofc you can do this with a class too..

[fleet venture]

ye

[rich adder]

i honestly prefer when working with reference types but thats just preference

[naive pawn]

local variables are on the stack, so if you have a local variable with a value type, the struct value is directly on the stack

[fleet venture]

but idk how i make it serializable

also i would have to use linq to filter or what?

[naive pawn]

you slap a [Serializable] on it

[grand badger]

Fixed yet?

[fleet venture]

no im working on it

but i mean if anormal dictionary works why cant i just use that?

[grand badger]

Damn.. alright ping if you need help

[fleet venture]

i mean im getting helped rn

[naive pawn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/script-serialization-rules.html
see this @fleet venture

[naive pawn]

unity doesn't know how to serialize it

[grand badger]

Yes but for the past hour or so xD

[rich adder]

so the idea is

public struct CustomProp {
public string Name;
public Prop TheProp; ```

[fleet venture]

but i dont need to access it in the editor

only the editor script needs to assign permanent values

[naive pawn]

oh...ok

[fleet venture]

idk if it has to be serializable for that

[naive pawn]

i don't know your original issue lol, i was going with what nav said lol

[rich adder]

it could make it easier for sake of serializing into files

or showing / configuring future props in the inspector

so always good to use Serializable

[fleet venture]

ye but a dctionary is easier to work with than this isnt it

cuz like that you have to use linq to filter which doesnt sound like its super ncie

[rich adder]

you dont have to use Linq

[grand badger]

No. Custom serializable classes are easier to work with in Unity

[rich adder]

you can override your own == and all that

[fleet venture]

i mean i would want to have []

[rich adder]

or Contains

[naive pawn]

like, to index by key?

[fleet venture]

like how dictionaries work

[fleet venture]

yeee

the Name is the key

[grand badger]

It’s just dictionaries aren’t serializable by default

[rich adder]

you can do that with Contains too..

just make it look for the string instead

[fleet venture]

oh

[rich adder]

you implement the IComparer

i think thats what it was called

[naive pawn]

that returns a bool though, rather than the full entry or value

[rich adder]

my b just meant finding by object in general not Contains

pass the object but it looks for the name via string

[fleet venture]

ye i do

[naive pawn]

you could use Find((entry) => entry.Name == targetName).TheProp

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.list-1.find?view=net-9.0#system-collections-generic-list-1-find(system-predicate((-0)))

[fleet venture]

is it possible to do like an operator overload in the struct though so i can just use [] like a dictionary?

[fleet venture]

because this is LINQ right?

[naive pawn]

no

that's a list method

[fleet venture]

it looks like it

oh

i thought it was on IEnumerable or whatever

hold up is === a thing in c#

[naive pawn]

nah this is too specific for linq

[naive pawn]

no, sorry im used to js lmao

[fleet venture]

LMAO ok

good

i thought i fucked up all my code just now

[naive pawn]

didn't even notice that

[fleet venture]

ok let me try

so how do i fillthe list in here

[naive pawn]

btw, aren't fields usually camelCase

[fleet venture]

idk unity uses stupid naming

its diff from c#

and it confuses the hell out of me

c# uses stupid naming hto

java has a good naming scheme

C# is like

[naive pawn]

yeah but this is the case like, everywhere

[fleet venture]

ok lets just make EVERYTHING PascalCase cuz why not

[rich adder]

thats because instanceId is a enum

[fleet venture]

this is what i hate about the naming in c# its impossible to tell what something is by the name

classes are pascal case, properties are pascal case, public fields are pasdcal case, methods are pascal case, constants are pascal case

like STOP

its so stupid

[naive pawn]

i mean.. c# differentiates between interfaces and classes/enums...

not sure it's a very useful thing though

[naive pawn]

public fields aren't pascal case

[fleet venture]

i think they are

in C#

[naive pawn]

public props are

not public fields

[fleet venture]

fields too i thought

[rich adder]

either way you should be making it a prop if its public

[slender nymph]

they are, but also they shouldn't exist too so 🤷‍♂️

[naive pawn]

ah nah this is in a struct

or... should those be properties..?

[rich adder]

I still make them pascal

[slender nymph]

doesn't matter, structs should still use properties for things that are public facing

[naive pawn]

damn

[rich adder]

but yeah if you gotta do it "correct" general opinion is to just use props

[naive pawn]

good lord

[fleet venture]

no but it has to be serializable by unity

[naive pawn]

does Prop have a name or something?

[rich adder]

thats what the backing field serializefield is for

[slender nymph]

if it is accessible outside of the object it should be a property so you can have fine control over how it is accessed and what happens when it is

[sour fulcrum]

[field: SerializeField] get; private set; is my default bread and butter

[fleet venture]

unpopular opinion, people are excessive with encapsulation

[rich adder]

that can work too. just makes an ugly backing field name for it @sour fulcrum

[fleet venture]

ye

[naive pawn]

you could do theDictList.Add(new CustomProp() { Name = obj.Name, Prop = obj }); i think?

[fleet venture]

no i want to put all of these props in Room which is in the scene

[naive pawn]

i don't remember the exact syntax there

[fleet venture]

idk how i get a reference to Room tho

[naive pawn]

ok how are you gonna key them though

[fleet venture]

their name

the file name

[naive pawn]

so.. they do have names

[fleet venture]

yes they ahve names

[naive pawn]

why did you say no then lol

[sour fulcrum]

I do not see it 😄

[fleet venture]

sorry i didnt realize

sometimes im a bit confused sorry haha

[rich adder]

outta sight , outta mind

[naive pawn]

anyways this. syntax might be a bit wrong though, i don't remember

[sour fulcrum]

Got enough perceivable problems anyway

[naive pawn]

might need semis

[fleet venture]

the issue is how do i get theDictList

[rich adder]

looks fine

[naive pawn]

you make it..?

you need to have it somewhere

[fleet venture]

no theDictList is located on the Room script in my scene

[naive pawn]

(and name it better)

[fleet venture]

idk how i get it in the editor script

[naive pawn]

ah that's what you meant

[rich adder]

making accessible through a Singleton or something

[fleet venture]

ye

noooo

i dont want to make this a singleton

i could but

[rich adder]

depends what needs access to it

[fleet venture]

a whole lot

but i dragged it in everywhere

[rich adder]

Singletons are very good if you have DDOLs and stuff
cross scene references etc

[fleet venture]

i dont rly want to change it everywhere

ye but this isnt a cross scene reference

its only used in the same scene

and i need to access it in the editor script

[rich adder]

as long as you have a reference linked then wahts the problem

[fleet venture]

how do i get it in the editor script

[rich adder]

the one from the scene?

[sour fulcrum]

Ideally even just have 1 gamemanager singleton and when your thing wakes up tell the gamemanager about it, so other scripts can access it via the gamemanager

[fleet venture]

yes

i have a Room inthe scene that i need to access in the editor script

thats my question

[rich adder]

where is you editor script at the moment

[fleet venture]

in Editor folder

directly in assets

[rich adder]

oh.. I thought you were doing the Menu Item thing

[fleet venture]

oh nah

that was confusing

[rich adder]

using an editor script is less confusing?

[fleet venture]

i thought that was the same thing honestly

[rich adder]

no

[fleet venture]

i just have this

[rich adder]

MenuItem lives on a MB

usually

it just makes it so it appears above your toolbar menu

where you see File,Edit, Tools, Help etc.

[fleet venture]

this IS a MB

should this not be a MB

[rich adder]

when you want to do stuff from a gameobject you need it to be MB to be attached

[fleet venture]

So i should do the MenuItem

so where do i put the function then?

[rich adder]

You want to toss this stuff in this same script, all your doing is using MenuItem so you dont have to drag them all..

[fleet venture]

inside of the ROom Class?

[rich adder]

though frankly you can just Mass select them and drop them in

[fleet venture]

no because i also need to put all the keys which are strings

and i would have to put 300 strings in myself

for the names

[rich adder]

You just loop through the items in the inspector , the process is the same

[fleet venture]

i am pretty lost as to what to do and where im at. How do i do the menu item thing

because apparently thats different from what im doing rn

oh i can run it like this if its a menu itme

[rich adder]

[serializefield] private Prop[] props; //drag n drop

then do
foreach(var prop in props){

if(prop.name.Contains("barrel")
barrelsList.Add(prop)

obv not real code but just the idea of it

or you need a nasty switch

[fleet venture]

ye but i need it to stay if i stop running it

[rich adder]

yes or you can also use [ContextMenu] which just lets your right click the script to run a function

[rich adder]

thats why you run the setup in the editor

unless you had like Enums for each Prop type, you have no choice but to check their name contains a specific thing to group them

[fleet venture]

my question still stands tho how do i get this instance field prefabs in the static fill method

[grand badger]

you can use a scriptable object (singleton)

[fleet venture]

the grouping in the assets directories isnt important

[grand badger]

ScriptableObject singletons are super common in Unity -- especially for editor functionality or general configs

[rich adder]

wdym just access it like any other method

[grand badger]

primarily because while you may choose to use it as a singleton, you may also opt to replace it with something else for whatever tests you might have in mind

[fleet venture]

would this work?

[grand badger]

[CreateAssetMenu]
public class RoomGenConfig : ScriptableObject {
    // your fields

    public static RoomGenConfig instance { get; private set; }
    
    [RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod] static void Init() => instance = Resources.Load<RoomGenConfig>("RoomGenConfig");
}

[fleet venture]

[MenuItem("fill")]
    public static void Fill()
    {
        var objects = FindObjectsByType<Prop>(FindObjectsSortMode.InstanceID);
        var room = FindFirstObjectByType<Room>();
        foreach (var obj in objects)
        {
            room.prefabs.Add(new PropKeyValue() {name = obj.name, prop = obj});
        }
    }```

would this work?

[fleet venture]

huh

thing is i use it in a lot of places

[fleet venture]

objects are in assets, room is in scene btw

[grand badger]

is that an issue? you'd just have to use RoomGenConfig.instance to access it anywhere

[fleet venture]

ye thats a lot of changes

kind of a pain

all to run this script 1 time

[rich adder]

should work fine

wait.. why are you adding to the same object..

[grand badger]

you'd have done it 30-45 times in this 90 minutes you've been discussing about alternatives 😛

[fleet venture]

wdym adding to the same object?

FindObjectsByType searches in both assets AND scene?

[rich adder]

oh nvm didnt see the Room part for some reason

[fleet venture]

wait FindObjectsByType doesnt work on asssets

so this wont work

[rich adder]

FindObjectsByType is only for loaded objects in memory

aka the scene

[fleet venture]

so how do i get all the prefabs then?

[rich adder]

I been saying use the inspecttor drag n drop but if you refuse to do that, use the method to find AssetDatabase

[fleet venture]

no i dont refuse to do that

i just do not understand

how

where do i drag it too

[rich adder]

You grab them ALL , CTRL + A

and in the same field of that editor script List<Props>

dont make the function static

[fleet venture]

oh i dont?

uh it doesnt like that

i dont have an editor script

i have the menuitem thign

i changed it like you said

[rich adder]

dont use Menu Item

[fleet venture]

WHAT

[rich adder]

just use ContextMenu

[fleet venture]

oh

ok

[rich adder]

with static you cannot use fields from same class

[fleet venture]

so now i create a new thing

[rich adder]

replace the attribute from MenuItem to
[ContextMenu("MyCoolFunction")]

then right click component on gameobject, in the editor to run it

remove the Find part

[fleet venture]

ye i did remove that

omg ty it worked

thats great

this was so easy how was this so hard

this was 8 lines of code 💀

T-T

[rich adder]

probably a mix of misunderstandings lol

[fleet venture]

most definetly

[small dagger]

is there a better way for two script components of mine to reference the same script? Right now I have an audio manager script, but I also have a movement script that needs to reference it to play the movement sounds, and my collision handler script also accesses it to handle collision sounds, basically I just have them both get the component on start

[grand badger]

GetComponent on Awake() is the optimal method

[small dagger]

thanks

[grand badger]

np

[small dagger]

what is the difference between start and awake?

[rich adder]

one is for initialization and the other for access , generally

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Awake.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Start.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/execution-order.html

Start for example cannot run if disabled script, Awake doesnt have disabling cause it will run as soon as object is active

[timber tide]

Awake -> as soon as the object is instantiated
Start -> Right before the first time it enters the update loop

Also start may or may not be called on the same frame so take that into account

[small dagger]

gotcha, thanks guys

[rotund bolt]

I clicked "enable Debugging" on this and now it has that setting everytime i press "attach to unity". how do i disable this setting?

[rich adder]

"Enable Debugging for All Projects" ?

[rotund bolt]

yes

how do i disable that

maybe its just for this sessions like it says tho so maybe it iwll be gone when i close out and come back lemme try

it just makes saving my project when i make changes slower so its annoying to change something and then test it over and over

[rich adder]

do you want the debugger? I'm not sure I understand what you're asking now tbh lol

[rotund bolt]

im gonna be real, i dont really know what the debugger does lol cus unity seems to work just fine when i click the "cancel" option 😭 so i just click cancel each time

[rich adder]

well thats what Attach to Unity does.. it makes it run with the debugger

https://unity.com/how-to/debugging-with-microsoft-visual-studio-2022

debugger is used for Breakpoints so it pauses at that point in the code, so you inspect values

[hushed hinge]

I happen to have a problem (while i have fixed the jumping which the player can jump normaly, but for the jumping frog power-up, when i hold down to charge up to perform a high jump, it doesn't perform a high jump for some reason. what do i do to fix this? or should i explain more?

private void FrogJump()
{

    if (Input.GetButton(_jump) && _isGrounded)
    {
        _jumpBufferCounter = 0;
        _coyoteTimeCounter = 0;
        _currentJumpForce += (Time.deltaTime * _currentJumpForceMultiplier);
        _currentJumpForce = Mathf.Clamp(_currentJumpForce, _jumpForce, _frogJumpForce);
        _ani.SetBool("Jump", true);
        _ani.SetFloat("JumpPower", (2 *_currentJumpForce)/ _frogJumpForce);
        _rb2D.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezePositionX | RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezeRotation;
    }

    if (Input.GetButtonUp(_jump) && _isGrounded && _rb2D.velocity.y < 0.01f)
    {
        _jumpBufferCounter = 0;
        _coyoteTimeCounter = 0;
        _ani.SetBool("Jump", false);
        _rb2D.velocity = new Vector2(_rb2D.velocity.x, 0.0f);
        _rb2D.AddForce(new Vector2(0.0f, _currentJumpForce), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
        _currentJumpForce = 0.0f;
        _ani.SetTrigger("FrogJump");
        _as.Play();
        _isGrounded = false;
        _rb2D.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints2D.None | RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezeRotation;
    }
    else if (Input.GetButtonUp(_jump) && !_isGrounded && _doubleJump)
    {
        _ani.SetBool("Jump", false);
        _doubleJump = false;
        _rb2D.velocity = new Vector2(_rb2D.velocity.x, 0.0f);
        _rb2D.AddForce(new Vector2(0.0f, _jumpForce), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
        _ani.SetTrigger("FrogJump");
        _as.Play();
    }
}

[rich adder]

havent you been around here long enough to know how to share code properly 🤔

[hushed hinge]

i know gdl, but seems to be unable to use it anymore. and i hae forgotten how to sent the code properly in text in here after for so long

[rich adder]

!code

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[hushed hinge]

private void FrogJump()
    {

        if (Input.GetButton(_jump) && _isGrounded)
        {
            _jumpBufferCounter = 0;
            _coyoteTimeCounter = 0;
            _currentJumpForce += (Time.deltaTime * _currentJumpForceMultiplier);
            _currentJumpForce = Mathf.Clamp(_currentJumpForce, _jumpForce, _frogJumpForce);
            _ani.SetBool("Jump", true);
            _ani.SetFloat("JumpPower", (2 *_currentJumpForce)/ _frogJumpForce);
            _rb2D.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezePositionX | RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezeRotation;
        }

        if (Input.GetButtonUp(_jump) && _isGrounded && _rb2D.velocity.y < 0.01f)
        {
            _jumpBufferCounter = 0;
            _coyoteTimeCounter = 0;
            _ani.SetBool("Jump", false);
            _rb2D.velocity = new Vector2(_rb2D.velocity.x, 0.0f);
            _rb2D.AddForce(new Vector2(0.0f, _currentJumpForce), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
            _currentJumpForce = 0.0f;
            _ani.SetTrigger("FrogJump");
            _as.Play();
            _isGrounded = false;
            _rb2D.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints2D.None | RigidbodyConstraints2D.FreezeRotation;
        }
        else if (Input.GetButtonUp(_jump) && !_isGrounded && _doubleJump)
        {
            _ani.SetBool("Jump", false);
            _doubleJump = false;
            _rb2D.velocity = new Vector2(_rb2D.velocity.x, 0.0f);
            _rb2D.AddForce(new Vector2(0.0f, _jumpForce), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
            _ani.SetTrigger("FrogJump");
            _as.Play();
        }
    }

[hushed hinge]

https://paste.mod.gg/bdzfzyuctyrh/0 ok

[rich adder]

ok good.
I gotta run out for an hour but I'm sure someone will b able to look at it better

[polar acorn]

Log the velocity right after you set it

See if it's giving the value you expect it to be

[hushed hinge]

well i tried this, it seems like it do increase, but not performing that for some reason

[polar acorn]

I don't see the velocity getting logged anywhere here

[polar acorn]

Okay, and is the value smaller if you don't hold it as long

[hushed hinge]

yeah, like when i just click on the jump, i would just do the jump like the normal jump i did

[polar acorn]

Try also logging the velocity when you change it for other reasons. Right now it looks like you're calling your normal jump function at the start of update regardless of whether you are in the frog suit or not

[hushed hinge]

like this?

[timber tide]

Look up depth intersection shaders

also #archived-shaders

[hushed hinge]

doesn't seem to charge up when i hold down the jump button while when i let go it shows 13

[cerulean oyster]

hi so the game im making uses a raycast to check if you are on the wall, ground etc. For some reason only when I build my triggers count as a wall which they shouldnt because bumping into the wall affects your score. It works fine in the editor but webgl and windows builds both have this issue. All im doing with these triggers is SceneManager.LoadScene() on the OnTriggerEnter2D. My Collison for my player is on continuous and I am checking for the player tag on the OnTriggerEnter2D method. it still loads the scene it's just counting as a hit prior. Ive been working on it for a few hours couldnt find anything but pretty new so probably missing something

[frigid sequoia]

I shouldn't be doing that remove inside a foreach loop right?

[cosmic dagger]

No, that should produce an error . . .

You need a reverse for loop . . .

[frigid sequoia]

I did that last time and I already forgot....

It's such a stupid inconvenience.....

Like looping a list and removing stuff on it is one of the most common things to do, Remove should support that

[cosmic dagger]

Really, how so? It's just a loop, but in reverse. You're not doing anything extra . . .

[frigid sequoia]

The inconvinience that is basially doing a foreach but with extra steps and text

[sour fulcrum]

extra steps and text?

[cosmic dagger]

The problem is foreach. It uses an enumerator which takes a snapshot of the collection (list, in your case). You can't modify that collection while enumerating because the next item(s) will be out of place and cause errors when removed. That's normal and actually makes a lot of sense . . .

[hushed hinge]

so... is there a way to fix that? because of that the number doesn't change while perfoming a high jump?

[frigid sequoia]

Why does the foreach moves backwards as if I was doing a reverse for loop to work for list like that?

It would make more sense to me

[sour fulcrum]

because by default they go forward and not backward?

Why would it make more sense for it to do it in reverse order by default

[cosmic dagger]

You mean, why doesn't it move backward, right? Because, to enumerate or iterate is to list or provide a way to move through elements, which by default, go forward, not backward . . .

[sour fulcrum]

also aside from just following the convention of counting numbers it's also generally not the responsibility of something inside an iterating list to modify itself like that

eg. in your example it's "odd" that a function just meant to get something out of a specific given list and actually messing with the list. Not intending to dunk on your code just pointing out because it's not ideally a common issue people have

[cosmic dagger]

I'd make an extension method that loops backward. Also, I forgot, Enumerators are read-only, meaning they're designed for reading data, not modifying . . .

[frigid sequoia]

Sure, the use of search for X occurrence on the list and if it happens just move it outside the list is such an odd thing to do right?

Like I dunno, feels one of the basic things a list should do

[hushed hinge]

Debug.Log("Holding jump, current velocity: " + _rb2D.velocity); (like when I hold in to charge to perform a high jump, the number doesn't seem to charge up to the limit)

Debug.Log("Jumped, current velocity: " + _rb2D.velocity); (when I let go to do a high jump, the highest number for how high I jump shows, but doesn't do the high jump)

just explaining

[sour fulcrum]

(kinda yeah)

[frigid sequoia]

Well, let it read the data, but just read the very next item on the list but backwards, which is basically what I am doing, and while odd going backwards, it probably avoids more errors than it causes

[cosmic dagger]

Using a foreach is only for iteration; it cannot determine what your intent is when using that iteration You are expecting the foreach to not only iterate, but know that you are removing an item, so it must wait for each item after to shift down, then when MoveNext is called, it stays in place to check the same position again . . .

[cosmic dagger]

I understand your idea, but that's a different type of enumerator. There needs to be a way to determine if your enumeration is going forward (default) or backward . . .

[sour fulcrum]

gotta understand the scale of how many iterations people use in this programming language and how comparatively uncommon it is to remove stuff from a iterating foreach while also being very trivial to handle that by iterating backwards instead. They aren't going to add additional processing cost for what's a very niche and non-issue

[grand badger]

@sour fulcrum if you wanna remove objects from the list, use an "reverse for" loop instead of foreach. Using a foreach loop would throw an exception when mutating it.

"reverse for" (is my ESL term lol) meaning you start from the end and iterate backwards as you mentioned. It's a very common practice when wanting to remove objects from a list.

-- and when you wanna add to it, using just a "standard for" loop.

[velvet holly]

@hushed hinge I think the problem is your code calls initateJump() at the start of each update. That method calls the method preformjump() which checks if you have released _jump button and sets _isgrounded to false. Then later in update, your code calls the movment() method which calls your frogjump() and _isgrounded is already set to false earlier

Also you should really consider smaller scripts. Jumping, moving, climbing, etc could all be different scripts cause they don't really need to know anything about each other

it makes issues like this 100x easier to debug

[hushed hinge]

so, should i change something?

[sour fulcrum]

(im not the person having the problem and the person who is knows that)

[velvet holly]

@hushed hinge Honestly it's kinda hard to suggest exactly what to do because this script is doing so much. The issue I'm seeing is that handlejump() is handling your jump logic before your movement() method is called and so you've already performed a jump before your frog jump script is called

What I would do personally is moving jump logic into its own script. The only thing jumping needs to really know is if you're grounded. It doesn't need to be part of the script that handles all the other movement

[keen inlet]

Question for my game(I have no code rn about this topic yet, I've been organizing my plans and what order I should do things with the game dev. of my game)
I'm a beginner in coding kinda and doing stuff in Unity, I wanna know how can I make a reflectivity(aka rain that you see on usual radar apps) radar system where I can open a map and see rain/storms in areas, I have an idea on how to show the storms, but I don't have an idea on showing the map and storms in the exact correct position. So it would be helpful if someone explain how to code smth like this and how to do this stuff, because I can't find anything in tutorials that can be of use except tags

[hushed hinge]

for me personally, i'd prefer not to or else it will changes everything around

[velvet holly]

@hushed hinge You'll have to change something around cause currently your code is trying to handle jump logic in multiple different places at different times during each update() cycle

[hushed hinge]

i don't know what to change....

[velvet holly]

Your issue is that handlejump() and InitiateJump() are called first thing in your update method, which then calls preformjump(). Then FixedUpdate() calls your Movement() method, which inside of that calls either preformjump() or frogjump() again. But since you already handled jump logic in update, _isGrounded is always gonna be false

When you write scripts that get into several hundred lines of code like this that do so many different things, you will run into issues like this a lot and it is a massive headache to debug because you have to look through several hundred lines of code rather than a couple dozen. And you're having to look past logic for unrelated things except sometimes those things do end up intertwining accidentally cause you haven't seperated them

[hushed hinge]

am i supposed to move these methods somewhere else?

[velvet holly]

You should have them in different scripts entirely really. Have a script that only handles jumping. The only thing jumping needs to know is if you are grounded, so it doesn't need to exist with all this other code

For example, my project I'm working on, the longest script is 112 lines. Now line count in and of itself doesn't mean your code is doing too much, but it's a good indicator

[hushed hinge]

I had it like that before and it always worked. even the high jump always worked. but ever since adding in the buffer and coyote timer, some thngs doesn't seem right

[velvet holly]

Code always works until it doesn't. Your needs change and having code that's this hard to read through and maintain makes change near impossible as you are seeing now. What happens later when you add another suit that's a bird suit that lets you hold the jump button to fly up? Are you gonna add another couple hundred lines of code to this script? In the long run it will save you a ton of headaches if you make your individual scripts do less. There's nothing wrong with having multiple scripts attached to your player or whatever object

A rule of thumb I find is that I should be able to write what exactly the script does in the name of the script. This is for my golf game I'm working on so it's not the same as a platformer, but look at my Player controller. Each different input I'm doing is a different script. Each of those scripts is probably less than 50 lines each

[hushed hinge]

well i still prefer not to separate that is already in the player2d script or it it will change everything everywhere

[velvet holly]

Ok well the issue is that your update and fixedupdate both try to handle jumping. You need to remove the jump logic from one of those

the one in update goes first and never calls your frogjump ability

Update runs every single game frame which can happen up to 100s of time a second if your framerate is high enough, while fixedupdate runs only when physics are updated, which happens at a fixed rate, I think the default for unity is 50 times a second

based on how I'm reading it, I would remove handlejump() and initiatejump() from the start of update()

and then change frogjump to use Time.FixedDeltaTime instead of Time.deltaTime at line 459

[velvet holly]

the F shouldn't be capital

[hushed hinge]

oh

[velvet holly]

fixedDeltaTime, not FixedDeltaTime

[hushed hinge]

ok, there

[cosmic dagger]

You should have auto-complete. just by using dot notation it should appear . . .

Since it says the definition doesn't exist, that's an indication you misspelled it . . .

[hushed hinge]

alright, i removed both of them from the update

[velvet holly]

Try running that and let me know if you have any luck

[hushed hinge]

nope, still the same

[velvet holly]

Idk what to tell you. This script is doing too much and is calling stuff multiple times in multiple places

your movement function is called in fixedupdate and update on lines 266 and 198. PreformJump is called inside of Movement at line 368 but it's also being called in initiatejump which is called in update as well

It's nearly impossible to read through this and understand what it's doing

[mystic ferry]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[velvet holly]

What did you mean by saying that changing the player2d script will change everything everywhere?

[hushed hinge]

😢

[mystic ferry]

    private void CheckForInteractable()
    {
        Ray ray = playerCamera.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0));
        RaycastHit hit;

        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactionDistance + 0.1f, interactableLayer))
        {
            IInteractable interactable = hit.collider.GetComponent<IInteractable>();

            if (interactable != null && interactable != currentInteractable)
            {
                currentInteractable = interactable;
                currentInteractableObject = hit.collider.gameObject;
                UpdateInteractionUI(true);
            }
            return;
        }

        if (currentInteractable != null)
        {
            currentInteractable = null;
            currentInteractableObject = null;
            UpdateInteractionUI(false);
        }
    }

When UpdateInteractionUI is true it shows the text prompt. My problem is that while the ray is hitting the object it's flipping really fast.

[velvet holly]

@hushed hinge I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just trying to explain that the code is so jumbled that even you, the person who wrote it, can't read through it and understand what it's doing and when. You are gonna have to rewrite something to get this to work

[wintry quarry]

Probably whatever you're showing also has a Collider and it blocking it

[hushed hinge]

I've been trying my best over the past months, i managed to fix the normal jump issue, but haven't fixed the jumping frog one yet...

[mystic ferry]

What I'm showing is on the UI and all interactable objects have to be in the interactable layer and this is the only object in the project that is on that layer.

[north kiln]

how have you defined interactableLayer

[native thorn]

Is this usually the correct method

I put my inputs basically all in the same script should I not do that

[mystic ferry]

I assign what layers it is in the inspector. it's a public layer mask.

[velvet holly]

I really think breaking it into smaller scripts is your best option. The amount of time invested upfront in doing that will save you time in the long run. Your script has over a hundred lines just dedicated to declaring the variables at the top. Your jump code doesn't need to know about 95% of those variables

[native thorn]

I've been doing it so anything that's handled that has to be saved and loaded goes in one script and anything that doesn't goes in the other lol

For the player controllers at least

[velvet holly]

@native thorn as with everything it really depends. In general having different scripts have single responsibilities makes things a lot easier to work with and test and debug

[native thorn]

I find my UI ends up being a mess with 100 different scripts tho

[native thorn]

I might look into doing that more for the gameplay elements

[eternal needle]

having every single different input as a separate component is definitely overkill. having it in one is fine
if you use the new input system too you can generate the c# code and see how they do it

[native thorn]

It definately gets messy when I'm handling the weapons system and the controller and camera all in one file

[hushed hinge]

or can i try to move all the jump methods over to the fixedupdate?

[wintry quarry]

Use Debug Log to see what the Raycast is hitting if anything.

Seems like it's no longer hitting anything when you show the ui perhaps.

[velvet holly]

@hushed hinge that might be a good start yeah

[native thorn]

Is there a somewhat easy method to serialising data for saving and loading

[velvet holly]

I do think you are doing well with your variable and method naming. Helps the code readability a lot

[eternal needle]

the existing json frameworks, like newtonsoft, already do everything for you

[hushed hinge]

thanks, over the past months i've also been busy with some designs on how the world buildings might look like

[velvet holly]

@native thorn I've got a save system in my game that's pretty modular, lemme get the github link

[native thorn]

Oh, so you set it up using a contemporary unity thing? I'm a beginner with this

I can make arena shooters and platformers my knowledge ends there lolb

[velvet holly]

@hushed hinge I like the art style a lot for your game too

[eternal needle]

not really sure what contemporary means in this context. you can just download it from the package manager. Json.net

[velvet holly]

@native thorn Here's the save system in my current project https://github.com/EdmondsNathan/GolfGame/tree/main/Assets/My Assets/Scripts/Saving

[native thorn]

Sorry, I more so mean built-in

[hushed hinge]

aw, thank you, each planet are also going to have different variants, like one world will be sci-fi, one will be water, one will be snow, one will be ghostly, one will be of sweets, and one which will be dark, while a bonus would will be stars and fantasy, the home world

[mystic ferry]

Ray casts aren't normally bad with collision or something right?

I don't know why it's returning so many falses.

[native thorn]

Thanks, is this still one of the standard ways you'd do it for unity 6?

[wintry quarry]

Looks like it's hitting the door or the door trigger alternately

You should make sure only the colliders you want are included in the layermask

[eternal needle]

then yea its just accessible with the package manager and you should be fine to use it. Writing your own save system is pretty easy if you have a basic understanding of json

[cosmic dagger]

They're never bad with collision. They're job is to detect intersections with other colliders (collision) . . .

[velvet holly]

@native thorn It's implementing a standard unity package. Just go in the package manager, click the + button in the top left, "add package by name" and then paste com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json as the package

I'm about to leave work so I'll be afk for a bit, but if you wanna take a look through that code and DM me I can explain to you how it works in depth so you can adapt it to your game

The great and terrible thing about Unity is there's like no standard way of doing anything. It lets you do things however you want really

[mystic ferry]

Ok I accidently did change layer of all children but after making sure only that object is in the only one in the layer the issue persists.

[velvet holly]

@hushed hinge assuming you're using Visual Studio, although this would work in really any ide, you should look into how to use a debugger. It will help a ton with figuring out the issues in your code

[native thorn]

I'm very beginner I get as far as being able to break down unity specific info(game objects) into regular data
And can use that data to rebuild the game into the state I want

I'm just totally lost on storing and loading that data itself

[velvet holly]

It lets you set breakpoints that can pause your game when you reach a certain line of code and then step line by line through it and read what each variable is

@native thorn either tonight after I get home from work or tomorrow I can help you do that. That's what the code I sent should let you do with some tweaking

[native thorn]

Alright thanks I'll have a proper look through it today, I've got no electricity for a week so sort of planning ahead right now lol

[mystic ferry]

Wait. Can it be that it's because the raycast hit's it returns a true but then keeps going through it, hits nothing and returns a false?

[velvet holly]

oh yeah I remember you saying that, that shit sucks

just dm me if you don't understand any of it and I'll explain it

[mystic ferry]

Good luck man.

[native thorn]

Cheers homie

[hushed hinge]

I do use Visual Studio. While i am not the best at coding a lot, i do came a long way, especially when i was at game design school, while i am more of a game designer

[velvet holly]

@native thorn Ignore the scripts in that folder that say "Async" in the title. Those aren't being used at all and are just gonna make it more confusing

[mystic ferry]

Nah that's not how raycasts work.

[velvet holly]

@hushed hinge I would look up a youtube tutorial on how to use the debugger in visual studio with unity. I think you'll see quickly how helpful that'll be with fixing your script

We all gotta start somewhere. I'm no professional myself. I've just done lots of small game prototypes in Unity for years

[hushed hinge]

Well i did tried that moving the jump methods to the fixed update, and remove movement from update, it seems to be working now

[native thorn]

Ahh yeap, I'll deal with CPU performance stuff when I'm a lot further along lol

[velvet holly]

Hell yeah

[native thorn]

Also just to double check I wouldn't have to be worrying about this during development right?

As in, will I have to backtrack and alter a lot, or is it simply just breaking down variables into simple data and then bringing that data back

For some reason saving/loading has given me endless anxiety about every decision I've made lol

[velvet holly]

yeah that's all the saving does

alright I gotta go for real now tty all later

[native thorn]

Alright, thanks man

[tawny grove]

okay am i stupid or should PathList never be empty if Pathfinding.PathPos was EVER not empty (even if it currently is)

because somehow pathlist keeps getting reset to nothing when pathpos is nothing

oh is it

making pathList a refrence to PathPos rather then setting it

yep that was the problem

[marsh canyon]

how can I find this missing script issue?

I looked at the scripts in blue and I don't see how it could specifically help me find this "(Unknown)" script

[naive pawn]

we don't really recommend dms here, fyi. most support servers don't. it negates the benefit of having community support

[burnt vapor]

Click the warning message

It will navigate to the script

As to what script it is, idk. Try and figure out what it might be

[marsh canyon]

it doesn't thats the problem

well it at least doesn't navigate to the missing object or whatever

[hot laurel]

because its deleted but your component still points to removed script

[burnt vapor]

It should point to the missing script

If a script is missing, it specifies it is unknown on the component, and this warning triggers

But you should be able to click the warning and navigate to it, no?

[astral falcon]

If its in a prefab, it wont go there

As it is crying about your networkprefab from a packagecache, maybe try to readd the package or purge its cache folder

[mental prawn]

Hello everyone, I am new to unity and want to make a simple 2d crouch system in which the size and collider changes, but its bugged and not working. can anyone help me out? this is a part of the code

private void handleCrouch()
{
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S) || Input.GetKey(KeyCode.DownArrow))
    {
        if (!isCrouching)
        {
            isCrouching = true;
            transform.localScale = new Vector3(transform.localScale.x, crouchHeight, transform.localScale.z);
            collider2D.size = crouchColliderSize;
            collider2D.offset = crouchColliderOffset;

            Bob.gravityScale = 0f;
            Bob.linearVelocity = new Vector2(Bob.linearVelocity.x, 0);

            transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y - (normalColliderSize.y-crouchColliderSize.y)/2f);
        }
    }
    else if (isCrouching)
    {
        isCrouching = false;
        transform.localScale = new Vector3(transform.localScale.x, normalHeight, transform.localScale.z);
        collider2D.size = normalColliderSize;
        collider2D.offset = normalColliderOffset;

        Bob.gravityScale = originalGravity;

        transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y + (normalColliderSize.y - crouchColliderSize.y)/2f);
    }
}

i wanted to take into consideration the displacement

[astral falcon]

can you please explain, what you mean with its not working and bugged?

[mental prawn]

well I attempted to make it crouch and when the character crouches, it would normaly stay mid air but I attempted to fix it, and it just goes down too much, I will try to record it with obs

[astral falcon]

First thing to consider, watch, what happens, when you manually in edit mode scale a transform with a collider on it

[mental prawn]

I do not understand

[astral falcon]

Your collider will get scaled too. so be sure you are not double scaling it or expecting a specific size when using transform.localScale in parallel

[mental prawn]

well I am trying to change it's size too but it is just not working as expected

[mental prawn]

this is a recording of it

[astral falcon]

And thats why I mentioned to check your scaling. If you scale the transform, it already wills cale your collider with it. so your crouchColliderSize should take that into consideration too

And I am not gonna download anything from here, sry.

If you output mp4, it should embed it correctly I think

[mental prawn]

I will try to change the format

[mental prawn]

here it is

[astral falcon]

So as I said, your crouch is already scaling your transform (including the component collider on it). And because you are offsetting and resizing your collider, it will ignore the physics for a frame and get stuck below your 2d ground collider I guess. How about taking away the whole collider resizing and test it with just the transform scale?

[mental prawn]

imma do it

[mental prawn]

taking out the colider and position transform it works but it still stays mid air

[astral falcon]

Than you can try the other way around. Do not scale your collider. Detach your visual gameobject from the collider object and just scale it visually with scale and set your collider as you did before.

[lusty star]

i always write oncollisionenter like this but now apparently something is wrong because there is a yellow line under it, what happened?

[astral falcon]

what does it say when you hover it?

[lusty star]

the same thing thats written at the buttom

bottom

[mental prawn]

I would but it seems like it would be harder, I just started working with unity for a small game
also the moving of the position is not working

[lusty star]

and here its fine for some reason?????

update: its because i named the script collision

[astral falcon]

that looks like your IDE is not configured correctly, as no types are highlighted for example

[lusty star]

what do you mean?

[naive pawn]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[rugged beacon]

for colision is there any kind of rule to follow when should i use tags rather than layer colision and vice versa ?

[naive pawn]

you should use layers, generally

[astral falcon]

tags are for you to check in code. Layers can be used to exclude collision between layers, for example Player should not collide with itself or something

[rugged beacon]

can layer colision fully replace tags

[astral falcon]

you can have enemies on the enemy layer but still use different tags on them if you need

[mental prawn]

@astral falcon how should I fix the height difference?

[naive pawn]

depends on what you're using the tags for

hard to say without any context

[teal viper]

You'd usually want to just get component instead of tags

[rugged beacon]

im still dont know when should i use it, just rellize i have 20 layers and 0 tags

[naive pawn]

but yeah generally layers are the way to go for primary control of what collides and what doesnt

[astral falcon]

Oh wait, I just realised you are using transform.position. Thats not gonna work with colllisions

[teal viper]

You don't have to use them

[naive pawn]

that's fine

[astral falcon]

as tags are still a single thing these days and not an array, i do not know anyone, that is frequently using them. I guess the most know is "MainCamera" 😄

[rugged beacon]

like tried to get into tags a few times but almost everytime switch out cause i rember it compare string

i guess its fine to continue with layers like this then fr fr

[astral falcon]

And about your issue with skipping collisions and stuff. Pleae checkout !learn about basic collision2d tutorials. Because you are mixing up transform.position with collisions, which is not going to work, as transform.position basically skips the entire physics check. And thats what you gonna see and learn in the tutorials. How to properly move your character 🙂

[eternal falcon]

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Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[teal viper]

CompareTag doesn't compare strings. It compares hashes afaik.

[sour fulcrum]

components > tags when it comes to confirm if an object is what you are looking for

then layers are used to avoid checking that object in the first place

[rugged beacon]

then now i just think tags are obsolete feels abit wrong

[ripe shard]

you can think of them as an unlimited number of layers that aren't integrated/used-by almost anything

[rugged beacon]

oh yea layers limited, guess it can act as a backup

[ripe shard]

also tags compare strings if you use strings, otherwise they compare TagHandle structs

[mental prawn]

looking over some of them, they just pulled out a script and pasted it

[ripe shard]

whatever happens inside the engine with tags, 'nobody' knows

[sour fulcrum]

tags are gross, harcodey and pretty unadjustable at runtime. i've yet to see a reason why using a component isn't just superior

[astral falcon]

https://learn.unity.com/course/2d-beginner-adventure-game so you went through this entire tutorial, yes?

[astral falcon]

MainCamera 🤣

[sour fulcrum]

i dont use that 😄

[naive pawn]

you can only have 32 tags though, no?

[sour fulcrum]

no thats layers

[naive pawn]

no they both have that limitation iirc

or is it an array?

i haven't touched tags in a long time, i might be misremembering

[sour fulcrum]

tags are unlimited

[naive pawn]

hmm yeah they're a list

mb

[sour fulcrum]

they end up getting baked down into likely fancy hash c++ shenanigans for runtime use though

can't add new ones at runtime

[jaunty copper]

Hi guys, i have a problem with 2D colliders, my script doesn't work. I add debug logs but seems not enter OnTriggerEnter(). Can someone help me?

[tranquil forge]

is the Trigger checkbox checked ? are they in same layer or colidable layer?

[hexed terrace]

2d uses OnTriggerEnter2D()

[tranquil forge]

fr

[jaunty copper]

Yes, everything i want that collides has a box collider 2D o a circle collider with IsTrigger = true

[jaunty copper]

Thank you sooo much

[jaunty copper]

Now it show me this error

[hexed terrace]

ok, 2 things ..
configure your IDE so that it gives you warnings in it.. and you can use google to go to the docs to find the exact signature required

!ide

[eternal falcon]

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If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[astral falcon]

its right there in the console, what you need to do

[hexed terrace]

when you've configured your IDE correctly, it will auto-complete the method for you

[jaunty copper]

oh thanks, i wanted to have the auto-complete things that i see in the tutorials but i never knew how to do it

[hexed terrace]

Something you should have goolged to find out how to then..

The #1 skill of a developer is knowing how to search the internet

[jaunty copper]

I wanted to do it, but i thought it was more important to learn a bit first. However, i will configure now

[hexed terrace]

No, it's more important to have your tools setup correctly

You only hinder yourself by not having it setup correctly - see this current problem as an example

[jaunty copper]

I fix it, the problem was here: private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other){}
OnTriggerEnter2D requires Collider2D type for other

[hexed terrace]

yep, we know

that isn't a beginner question, better suited for #archived-code-general

[mystic ferry]

I remember my Ruby game from back in the day. You ventured deep into the forest, ate the mushroom and the world’s color got flipped.

[bitter apex]

is there a way to get the button, text of a button, and stuff like that with an OnClick() event? I'm not quite sure how to word it, but I want to reuse a method but for a multitude of buttons ( so I don't have to make lots of different methods for each button). Is there an easy way of getting the button, and text of the button upon the OnClick() event firing?

[timber tide]

Make the method the button calls retrieve the button reference

[bitter apex]

Yeah, that's the bit that I'm unsure of how to do#

[tacit vigil]

Hello everyone, so I currently have a cube with text that can rotate like so. How can I make it so when the cube rotates, the text rotates so it's always is readable? E.G. the text on the sides is always upright and the text on the top also always faces the camera (Assuming the camera position is always locked)

[rocky canyon]

that's not gonna be so straight-forward..
as u can't really make the numbers follow the camera at all times.. or else it'll look funny..
and if u only have it rotated at a 45* angle like it is.. theres usually (2) ways the number can face
atleast for the top number.. this is why Dies use dots instead of numbers 😄
thats the easiest solution..

i'll think on it.. i don't really have a solution in my mind atm

you could probably wait for the rotation move to be finished.. and then flip the numbers

[wild parrot]

hi, in this 9 second video youll notice the pillar im circling is super jittery cause of the camera. Im not sure how to fix this. should i show my code.

[naive pawn]

upload it as an mp4, discord can't embed mkv

[wild parrot]

i ask chatgpt and me and it tried to something about the the update method

i dont really understand it though

if you know a youtube video about it, ill go watch it

[naive pawn]

so just the camera is jittery?

show your movement code !code

[eternal falcon]

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[wild parrot]

using UnityEngine;

public class Movement : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed = 5f;
public Rigidbody rb;
void Start()
{
if (rb == null) rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    float movex = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    float movez = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

    Vector3 move = transform.right * movex + transform.forward * movez;

    rb.MovePosition(rb.position + move * speed * Time.deltaTime);
}

} (is this a 'large code block?')

ok i put it in paste.mod.gg/

[rocky canyon]

negative.. but format it like this next time

public class Movement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 5f;
    public Rigidbody rb;
    void Start()
    {
        if (rb == null) rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float movex = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float movez = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        Vector3 move = transform.right * movex + transform.forward * movez;

        rb.MovePosition(rb.position + move * speed * Time.deltaTime);
    }
}     ```

[wild parrot]

sorry

[wild parrot]

which serivce did u use

[rocky canyon]

i didn't its discord formatting..

[wild parrot]

oh u just put 'cs' there

[rocky canyon]

and the back ticks. `

[wild parrot]

'''cs hi'''

[rocky canyon]

nope.. those are apostrophe's

[thorn holly]

Don’t use ai if you don’t understand what it’s generating

[rocky canyon]

the backticks are usually above the Tab key..

on top left side of keyboard for Qwerty

[wild parrot]

i get it to explain everything but i dont get the whole concept of the update system

theres like 3 updates

[naive pawn]

don't use ai

simplified it for you

[rocky canyon]

the camera is probably jittery just b/c the rigidbody runs on the physics tick

try using some interpolation on ur player (rigidbody)

[wild parrot]

that was gpt said

okay interpolation is an option of rigidbody thing right

[rocky canyon]

a broken clock is right twice a day 😉

[rocky canyon]

yessir

[wild parrot]

i dont know what this saying means but i heard it many times

[naive pawn]

do you have interpolation on your rb

[naive pawn]

chatgpt is random output. sometimes it's right. don't expect it to always be right

[rocky canyon]

if a clock is stuck at 1:15.. its correct at 1:15 am .. and its correct at 1:15pm.. the rest of the time its wrong

[wild parrot]

oh yea true

[rocky canyon]

it just means "even things w/ bad advice can accidently get things right"

lol.. ya chatgpt is a good tool.. just try to not rely on it for things u dont understand

it'll screw u over and not think twice about it 😄

if that doesn't work you can add some smoothing to ur camera via its code

[naive pawn]

doesn't even think once

[rocky canyon]

i see what u did there

[naive pawn]

@wild parrot anyways, did the interpolation fix it?

if not, try setting the velocity instead of using MovePosition

[rocky canyon]

or just use cinemachine 😈

[wild parrot]

does that mean i wont be able to use the rigidbody functions

[wild parrot]

no ill try this velocity

[rocky canyon]

this is smoothing i was mentioning

[rocky canyon]

nah, but you'll need to consider it..

if ur manually setting the velocity..

[wintry quarry]

MovePosition and other Rigidbody stuff only belongs in FixedUpdate

It doesn't work properly in Update

[naive pawn]

no

why is that a bad thing lol

[rocky canyon]

(is this a 'large code block?')
i was only responding to this question

[wild parrot]

u say i cant use it

[naive pawn]

no, you can use them

you asked if you couldn't use them

[rocky canyon]

he said "no" it "doesn't mean you wont be able to use rigidbody functions"

[naive pawn]

so we're denying the negative part

[rocky canyon]

lol

[wintry quarry]

MovePosition also doesn't respect collisions for the moving object so if you need this thing to not go through obstacles you shouldn't use MovePosition as well

[rocky canyon]

^ this is a big point u might want to consider

[naive pawn]

oh yeah this is probably the main issue

setting a velocity just sidesteps that

[wintry quarry]

I think for the jittering problem this is actually the main problem

[wild parrot]

so even if its using the rigidbody, it wont do collision

[wintry quarry]

I mean it will but only after it's been moved inside other objects

Resulting in a harsh deconfliction

[wild parrot]

okay it wont predict

[wintry quarry]

Moving with velocity will properly stop it before it goes inside other things

[wild parrot]

okay i change my things to velocity

[rocky canyon]

    // every frame
    void Update()
    {
        //get input
        float movex = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float movez = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        movementInput = (transform.right * movex + transform.forward * movez).normalized * speed;
    }
    // physics frames
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        //use input
        rb.velocity = new Vector3(movementInput.x, rb.velocity.y, movementInput.z);
    }```

-# example code

let us know if moving the rigidbody function to fixed fixes ur problem

[eternal star]

Hello all, When my inventory canvas is active, I click on a transparent area to close it, but my character also moves to the spot I clicked. I don't want this to happen.

In short, when my inventory is open, I don’t want anything in the background to be interactive. How can I achieve this?

[rocky canyon]

disable the entire player movement script when inventory is open..
or if thers parts of it that need to be running.. you can use a boolean..

if(!canMove)
{ return; }

// the code that should run if you canMove```

[eternal star]

That makes a lot of sense. Thank you so much, I'm trying it now.

[rocky canyon]

another solution would be to make a transparent background image..

thats set to Raycast Target

that'd block any raycast from getting thru.. (if ur project is setup like that)

[eternal star]

"Raycast Target didn't work for some reason. Since my character is a Rive widget under another canvas, I wonder if that's why Raycast Target didn't work. I couldn't figure it out."

[rocky canyon]

not sure.. maybe something to do with the order of ur hiearchy?

Top gets drawn first.. then as u go down each element gets drawn on top of the next one

imo, its better to code it in place.. b/c u dont want clicks to do stuff not related to that menu.. but u'd also want keypresses and controller buttons to not affect anything else either..

soo maybe the bool would be the best choice.. or disabling scripts

[eternal star]

Thank You!

[rocky canyon]

it'd be a great time to work on a game manager

a singleton that would monitor that.. and have control over other things that need toggled

[rocky canyon]

you're right.. i tested it myself.. it will block other UI stuff but raycasts from the camera seem unaffected..

probably b/c of the way UI is drawn.. not too sure.. (so thats why i stressed the other method).. it'd be a better robust alternative

i knew that was a bit too cheeky to actually work

[hexed terrace]

raycasts don't affect UI (I believe), UI uses graphics casting

[rocky canyon]

ahhh makes sense..

yup, a boolean be the best way i guess

[rocky canyon]

ya, my first attempt i forgot to add my graphic raycaster to it..
so after doing that and it still not blocking any of my IInteractable stuff made me sure

that reminds me.. I always put off stuff like (disabling this and that when my menus are open)..
my projects get a bit crazy when i have UI open over top of the game itself.. 😄
i need to take my own advice and make me a little game-manager right quick

[eternal star]

I think I'll block the interaction somehow after the inventory is opened, but the UI is causing problems where it overlaps with the walking area. When I click to open the inventory, the character also walks towards that direction because I’m clicking on the collider.

[grand badger]

you need to add a check to your "point and click" logic to check if (!IsMouseOnTopOfUIElement()) first

it's not a one-liner by default, so you'll need to set up a method for it, but it's a one-time setup then you make it a one-liner

[late burrow]

didnt dictionary had support for accessing null keys?

[grand badger]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-to-detect-if-mouse-is-over-ui/821330/2

[late burrow]

if dict[5] == null screams that 5 dont exist but im pretty sure i could do that

[naive pawn]

you sure it was c#?

[grand badger]

using dict[5] assumes your dictionary is Dictionary<int, object>

[late burrow]

yes but it errors if 5 int dont exist

[grand badger]

and you're trying to access the object whose key is registered as 5

[naive pawn]

entries with null values and nonexistant entries aren't the same, btw.

[grand badger]

-- this is NOT the 5th element

[late burrow]

yes i know

[naive pawn]

i mean it wouldn't be the 5th element anyways

it'd be the 6th if it were an index

[grand badger]

ok yes then you can definitely do dict.Add(5, null);

[late burrow]

of course you can add null but you cant access them if they are null

but i think you could do that

[grand badger]

it's just a dictionary -- a map

you can add ANY values if the key is correct, and you can retrieve it back

[naive pawn]

@late burrow

[grand badger]

that's not true btw

an entry just needs a key and a value to "exist" in the dictionary

the value being null doesn't invalidate its existence.

[late burrow]

like i dont know whats the problem shouldnt it just give null?
KeyNotFoundException: The given key '5' was not present in the dictionary.

[grand badger]

there's something else wrong in your code, likely. If you wanna share more I can try to point it out

you just never added a value in the dictionary with key = 5

[late burrow]

yes but im 100% sure i didnt had to add them like that if they are primitie

[naive pawn]

yes, this is what im talking about

the value being null and the entire entry not existing are not the same thing

[grand badger]

OH sorry you said AREN'T 😄 Yes that's 100% correct then mb

[grand badger]

you can check if key exists and is not null by doing:

if (dict.TryGetValue(5, out var val) && val != null)

[frosty hound]

To be clear, you're conciously aware that you did not add a key 5 to your dictionary and you're asking why it's throwing an exception when you try to access a non-existant key?

[grand badger]

or you can check if key doesn't exist OR is null by doing:

if (!dict.TryGetValue(5, out var val) || val == null) { return; }

[late burrow]

yes i know i didnt added because im doing the loop that puts whatever it finds into dictionary

and didnt wanted erase existing contents

[late burrow]

guess ill haev to do this then

[grand badger]

yup! super common practice

[naive pawn]

no

[late burrow]

maybe, but i swear it wasnt throwing error before

[teal viper]

You're probably confusing with C++ maps. They can add new elements via the indexer.

[late burrow]

just giving null

[naive pawn]

it'd give null if 5 was present but null

[naive pawn]

or js objects/maps

[grand badger]

it likely wasn't throwing an error before because you had an entry added with key = 5

[late burrow]

or i just got brainwashed by json

[grand badger]

maybe 😄 json indeed only parses what matches no problem

[naive pawn]

what...

[rocky canyon]

        if(testDict.TryGetValue(5,out var value5))
        {
            if(value5 == null)
                Debug.Log("Key 5 exists, but its value is null.");
            else
                Debug.Log($"TryGetValue: Key 5 exists with value: {value5}");
        }```

ahh dang.. someone beat me to it

[grand badger]

we C# people can add new entries via the indexer as well! Like: if (!dict.ContainsKey(5)) { dict[5] = null; }

[late burrow]

nvm that was the way i did it

just instead of == null containskey

and you can indeed then write dict[whatever] = null

[bright zodiac]

that doing lookup twice, CollectionMarshal.GetValueRefOrAddDefault would be nice for this

[grand badger]

we're in #💻┃code-beginner 😆

[bright zodiac]

ah shiet,, yeah forgot that

[rocky canyon]

we're strictly Lists and Arrays over here bruh

😆 j/k j/k Dictionaries are welcome too

[grand badger]

yea yea totally welcome...! in #archived-code-general

[tacit vigil]

I'm now trying to prgramatically add an image to each face object, which I am trying to do as following

 for(int i = 0; i < transform.childCount; i++)
        {
            GameObject Go = transform.GetChild(i).gameObject;
            if(Go.name[^4..] =="Face"){
                Button b = Go.transform.GetChild(0).GetComponentInChildren<Button>();
                var sprite = Resources.Load<Sprite>("pip"+Random.Range(1,10));
                b.image.sprite = sprite;
            }
        }

But the scene loads errorless and imageless. The images I am trying to place on the buttons are under Assets/Resources/pipX.png, with X being a number 1-9

I've also confirmed that it enters the if correctly

[tawny grove]

How would i go about more efficiently running a function every other frame? An if statement in update? Corontuines?

[naive pawn]

more efficiently than what?

and would it really make a difference lol

the work you do is probably more intensive than triggering it

sounds lke premature optimization

[bright zodiac]

it might in terms of devirtualization. devirtualized virtual methods will be faster

[tawny grove]

Most efficiently mb not more

Why was “most*” censored lol

[grand badger]

if (++i % 2 == 0) { MyMethod(); } would be fine I think.

[tawny grove]

Alr, ty

[naive pawn]

but would it be significantly more? probably not

that's a microoptimization at that point

[tawny grove]

would i just use a variable that infinitely increases for this or would it be better to recent whenever it runs

[bright zodiac]

no, when devirtualized it will use call instead of callvirt
meaning, the same overhead like normal methods

[naive pawn]

doesn't really matter

[bright zodiac]

its still nice tho

callvirt is known to be slower but not as much

[rocky canyon]

can you debug the values ur using to make sure they are what u expect?

[grand badger]

use a separate variable called frameCount. If you REALLY wanna make it robust make it ulong or add another line that resets it when it reaches maxvalue 😆

[rocky canyon]

if theres no errors i'd guess that the code/logic is correct.. but maybe the images aren't what u expect

[naive pawn]

for an int32 it would overflow after 3 months at 240fps

you're safe with an int32

[grand badger]

an unsigned long type (ulong) can represent a number up to 18446744073709551615, so this logic will ONLY run for 18446744073709551615 frames

[grand badger]

that's similar to what tetris devs thought about max score 999,999

[naive pawn]

ah yes, ONLY 2437260 millenia

[tawny grove]

That should be fine long, dont think any game will be ever left running that long

[tacit vigil]

Which values are you reffering to?

[rocky canyon]

the gameobject, the button, the sprite

[tacit vigil]

The images look like so

[rocky canyon]

all of em lol yea, make sure ur getting those names correctly..

im not really sure how u'd debug to see if its selecting the correct image

[tacit vigil]

ok yep, the sprite variable is null

so it's not being loaded

[rocky canyon]

👍 first step complete! ⭐

now to figure out why.. lol

[cosmic dagger]

It's easier to do a simple comparison instead of the modulo operator . . .

[grand badger]

like this?

if (frameCount == 0 || frameCount == 2 || frameCount == 4 || frameCount == 6 || frameCount == 8 || frameCount == 10 || frameCount == 12 || frameCount == 14 || frameCount == 16 || frameCount == 18 || frameCount == 20 || frameCount == 22 || frameCount == 24 || frameCount == 26 || frameCount == 28 || frameCount == 30 || frameCount == 32 || frameCount == 34 || frameCount == 36 || frameCount == 38 || frameCount == 40 || frameCount == 42 || frameCount == 44 || frameCount == 46 || frameCount == 48 || frameCount == 50 || frameCount == 52 || frameCount == 54 || frameCount == 56 || ...
{
    MyMethod();
}

[mental prawn]

as far as I am concerned it looks like pain

[tawny grove]

True honesty this is most effective

[bright zodiac]

in what way? 😄

[grand badger]

simple and readable code is often the best

[bright zodiac]

in this case, your coworkers would like to beat you up I think

😄

[mental prawn]

bool check=false;
int max_ = 1000;
for(int j = 0; j <= max_ && !check; j += 2)
  if(frameCount == j)
    check = true;

[cosmic dagger]

haha, you funny . . .

if (++_frameCounter < _intervalFrames) return;

MyMethod();
_frameCounter = 0;

[mental prawn]

I believe this would do the job

[tacit vigil]

i think I found it. in a 3d environment pngs are imported as textures not sprites

[mental prawn]

or this

[tacit vigil]

so i just need to convert to sprite probably,,, but maybe it's a good idea to see if it can be done with textures

[mortal ginkgo]

how do i make it so that visual studio gives me suggestion to complete my sentence?

[rocky canyon]

this code needs an exorcist

[cosmic dagger]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[mental prawn]

also I do not get any completion in visual studi

do you know why that would be?

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[grand badger]

idk I still feel this code is the simplest if (++i % 2 == 0) { MyMethod(); }

[rocky canyon]

same response.

[mental prawn]

oh T_T

[mortal ginkgo]

thanks

which visual studio should i use?

[cosmic dagger]

The modulo operator is more expensive because of the division instead of a simple comparison . . .

[bright zodiac]

not true, the compiler should be smart enough to avoid expensive stuff... well unless unity can't avoid bad codegen so uh...

either way, here's a way to avoid modulo with bitshift for even/odd operations based on that posted use case

bool IsEven(int val) => (val & 1) == 0;

[tawny grove]

I need to watcg a video on bitshift i dont understand it at all 😭

[bright zodiac]

you rarely need it, so you're not missing out much 😂

[timber tide]

bitwise enums: "Am I a joke to you?"

[bright zodiac]

you will need it once Unity is done migrating to coreClr..
bitshift is heavily used on vector generics (Vector<T>/Vector128/256) for SIMD stuff

[cosmic dagger]

Haha, I have this exact same extension method . . .

/// <summary>
/// Determines if an integer is an even number.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="val">The integer value to check.</param>
/// <returns>True if the integer is even; otherwise, false.</returns>
public static bool IsEven(this int val) => (val & 1) == 0;

[bright zodiac]

nice

[burnt vapor]

No, it never did. A dictionary validates its key with this method: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Collections/Generic/Dictionary.cs#L1685

You should not assume it works anyway, because null would be a very vague key since it's not a value

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsmgZmsPV6w

[bright zodiac]

you can with CollectionMarshal but that's unsafe

[rocky canyon]

he uses layermask as the example.. but its a good video on bitshifting and stuff imo

[bright zodiac]

also not sure how it would behave in unity tbh

[grand snow]

after learning about bit shifting endianness is a fun next topic! /s

[burnt vapor]

Yes but this is the code beginner channel and I really doubt they have used it

[bright zodiac]

ah yeah, the second time I forgot this today... my bad

[rocky canyon]

we need someone to come in with their mouse delta's multiplied with deltatime to help remind us

[mental prawn]

I followed it (first one) but nothing seems to be new.
does this look alright?

[naive pawn]

no

[grand snow]

"help notepad isnt working for code how do i use" 🤡

nooooo

[rocky canyon]

rekt

[mental prawn]

idk I am trying but it is not working

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio#if-you-are-experiencing-issues

[grand snow]

make sure your have no compile errors in unity. If you followed the set up correctly then close visual studio then open it again in unity via the ASSETS > OPEN C# PROJECT menu.

that will make it open the visual studio solution (the fancy project file)

[mental prawn]

oh

oh no

brb

[naive pawn]

why doesn't this work
'''
cs
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class movement : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField]
public float mouse_Sensitivity;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{

transform.position = transform.position +Input.mousePositionDelta *mouse_sensetivity * Time.deltaTime
}

}
'''

[rich adder]

backticks

[naive pawn]

what are those

[rich adder]

`` `

[naive pawn]

woah how did you do that!!1!1

[rich adder]

magic 🌈

[naive pawn]

oh god this is physically painful how do people troll

[grand snow]

#include <UnityEngine>

class MyScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public:
    void Start() {
        int* myInt;
        Debug::Log(std::format("test {0}", *myInt));
    }

private:
    void Update() {

    }
}

guys my script doesnt work help /s

[rich adder]

UnrealUnity

[grand badger]

well, you're trying to use an uninitialized variable.

[grand snow]

ding ding you win

[rich adder]

hey at least its not python

[grand snow]

it would sigsegv due to the nullptr deref

[grand badger]

I recommend studying a bit more about Unity code and C# in general before jumping straight in game dev

[grand snow]

yes i will go read up on python for unity

[naive pawn]

wouldn't it be a random value, rather than guaranteed null?

[grand badger]

that's the spirit!

[grand snow]

tbh im not sure, I want to say that most compilers would not do this to prevent stack leakage

[naive pawn]

import "UnityEngine";

class MyScript extends MonoBehaviour {
  public Start(): void {
    Debug.Log(`Start from ${this.constructor.name}`);
  }
}

[grand badger]

what's this damn language

[naive pawn]

ts

[grand badger]

why this.constructor.name is allowed lmao

[naive pawn]

because that's how js works

[grand snow]

this is cursed in js

() => {} will capture this but function() {} will not

[grand badger]

oh lol wow

[naive pawn]

the opposite

[grand snow]

i mean that the lambda will capture this from the scope it was created in, vs the calling this later.

[naive pawn]

tested and got random value, assuming that local variables work the same regardless of if they're free or a method

[naive pawn]

oh it's not captured

[grand snow]

oof, this is why we need more rust

[naive pawn]

the behaviour is that function() {} creates a new this context, while () => {} does not

() => console.log(this) will give different results depending on where it's called from

[grand badger]

I wasn't aware of this and was fighting a bug at some point for an hour or so lol after refactoring some code

ended up solving it by caching a local variable but still not realizing why that'd fix it

[naive pawn]

import unityengine as ue

class MyScript(ue.MonoBehaviour):
  def Start():
    Debug.Log("Hello world")

[grand snow]

all py examples i see always shorten the longest import you have ever seen into a

import supercoolclibwrapper as s

[grand badger]

import unityengine as MyCustomEngine_I_MadeThis_btw

[rich adder]

fuck it

section .data
    message db "Hello world", 0xA
    message_len equ $ - message

section .text
    global _start

_start:
    mov eax, 4
    mov ebx, 1
    mov ecx, message
    mov edx, message_len
    int 0x80

    mov eax, 1
    xor ebx, ebx
    int 0x80

[naive pawn]

import pandas as 🐼

[naive pawn]

this isn't even unity anymore 😭

[rich adder]

Unity Assembly ™️

[naive pawn]

we kinda exhausted our options, huh

[rich adder]

ran the train right into a brick wall

[mental prawn]

I did everything and it still doesn't autocomplete it in this

[naive pawn]

bruh i edited the "number or text" to "message" and it didn't save

[naive pawn]

have you regenerated the solution, then validated that you have the solution open?

[rich adder]

screenshot your Solution Explorer

[mental prawn]

good question, what is that

[rich adder]

button in Preferences

[mental prawn]

I hope you mean this

[rich adder]

(Unloaded)

right click it, Reload with Dependencies

[mental prawn]

where

[rich adder]

where it says Unloaded

[mental prawn]

please believe me i don't see where it says that

[rich adder]

well you need glasses then

[mental prawn]

maybe

[rich adder]

look carefully to the window I told you to look at #💻┃code-beginner message

[naive pawn]

do you see the tab labelled solution explorer

[mental prawn]

I asked gpt and he told me where to look and finally found it

[naive pawn]

consider not doing that

[rich adder]

civilization is doomed

[mental prawn]

now I got this

T_T

[naive pawn]

it disliked your usage of gpt

as it should

(microsoft wants you to use copilot instead)

[rich adder]

I dont understand how its easier to ask a chatbot than look with your eyes

will you need chatgpt to tell you how to piss

[mental prawn]

I stared at it for 3 minutes and didn't saw it

I WON, FINALLY

[hexed terrace]

this visual studio is not configured correctly

!vs

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[rich adder]

did your discord not update ?

[fallen jacinth]

Do someone have good youtube toturials for C# or something other than youtube?

[rich adder]

check pin

[fallen jacinth]

thanks

[rich adder]

personally I preferred when I started
https://learn.unity.com/project/beginner-gameplay-scripting
&
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learntocode

[fallen jacinth]

thank you so much

now my computer is exploding after i render my animation in blender

[lyric pulsar]

hey im working on a 20 sided dice but the debug log is showing the wrong number. is there a way to fix that?

[rich adder]

ya make it give the correct number

[hexed terrace]

debug log is showing the correct number for the time it spits it out

[lyric pulsar]

is there a way to assign a number per roll?

[rich adder]

yeah why not

[rocky canyon]

https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/ is a good'n

[rotund bolt]

I have two classes, Player (which doesn't have the title in the screenshot, sry, but its just the smaller picture one) and TestingEvents. I'm learning about events and I think the way they're supposed to work is if I invoke an event in class A, a different class B can "hear" that the event was invoked and then perform a desired function that was defined in class B. <--- assuming that's correct, I'm trying to do some stuff using that logic (I might be wrong about those assumptions and maybe that's my issue though.)

So I have some code that tests whether space was pressed, one time with a function defined inside TestingEvents class, and another time with a function defined in the Player class. The Testing_OnSpacePressed() function works (defined inside TestingEvents) and spits out "Space!" in the console, but the EventTester_OnSpacePressed() does not seem to work (defined in Player). I assumed since OnSpacePressed?.Invoke(this, EventArgs.Empty); is getting invoked inside the Update() method in TestingEvents that the EventTester_OnSpacePressed() would be triggered since I attached it with eventTester.OnSpacePressed += EventTester_OnSpacePressed; in the Player class. Any thoughts on this? do I have a fundamentally flawed assumption about how events work? I was hoping to join a voicechat to get some verbal help with this but i dont think unity discord has voicechat, if somebody has a mutual server we can join a voicechat there

TestingEvents Class: https://paste.ofcode.org/rASCtxvdZwQXV5giv2hht
Player Class code: https://paste.ofcode.org/iHfmnEBdMnQtBw6HdLevJb

[short hazel]

You cannot use new on TestingEvents to create an instance, because it is a MonoBehaviour. It is not allowed to do that because Mono scripts must be attached to a Game Object. When you use new that won't be the case. That is most likely why it's not raising the event at all

Also you're subscribing with += in Update, which is executed every frame. Given a framerate of 60 FPS, if you raise the event after 1 second, your OnSpacePressed() method will be executed 60 times!

[rotund bolt]

im sort of following what youre saying, would you mind hopping in a voicechat if you have the time?

no worries if not

[cerulean oyster]

yo i am using a RayCastHit2D to check if im hitting a wall and for some reason only on build it hits triggers even though I contact filtered them out and turned off queries hit triggers in settings im so confused ive been messing with it for hours and I cant figure this out. IT's so weird that it only happens on build( and it happens for both webgl and windows) I even tested it on my laptop and it still happens. It's important because im resetting the score on wall hit, and it works fine on my item but it breaks on the collider that has SceneManager.LoadScene(). Any ideas??

[tawny grove]

how would i go about getting the angle between the red square and the blue square as if it was on a circle? like in this case it would be around 145. i tried vector3.angle but it doesent seem to work the way i want it

[wintry quarry]

You mean the angle between the two black lines?

[tawny grove]

yes

[wintry quarry]

You would use Vector3.SignedAngle

or Vector2.SignedAngle

[tawny grove]

let me try that

what do i put as the axis?

[wintry quarry]

The direction pointing out of the screen

in this diagram

or use the 2D version

if you have 2d vectors

[tawny grove]

hm it still appears to be in the wrong position but i think it might be from something else

[wintry quarry]

Vector3.Angle would also work perfectly here btw (and will work as long as the angle you are looking for is less than 180 degrees)

so my guess is you are passing in the wrong parameters

Maybe show your code?

[tawny grove]

its gonna be more than 180 atleast the way im trying to

alr 1 sec

[wintry quarry]

you are doing SignedAngle using position vectors

that's wrong from the get go

[tawny grove]

oh

[wintry quarry]

it works with directions

[tawny grove]

to get directions i just normalize them right?

[wintry quarry]

In your image here you need the direction from Blue TO Red, and the direction from blue TO the end of that black line on the right side of the circle

those are the directions

[wintry quarry]

no...

To get a direction vector from point A to point B it's B - A.

(you can normalize that result)

[tawny grove]

yeah thats what i meant woops

[wintry quarry]

you need a point C here

which would be the rightmost part of the circle in your diagram

[tawny grove]

C would just be vector2.right * radius right?

[wintry quarry]

• the center

of the circle

Unless the blue position happens to be Vector2.zero

otherwise it'd be blue + Vector2.right * radius

though the radius isn't going to matter for these angle calculations

[wintry quarry]

the direction itself might just be Vector2.right if you always want it to be that

[tawny grove]

oh actually that makes sense lol

[wintry quarry]

yeah for the second one if you always want it going straight right you can just put Vector2/3.right

[tawny grove]

i got a - 67 from what should have been 150~, weird

[steel smelt]

ur normalizing the position itself before ur computing the delta

ur supposed to normalize the difference between the positions

[tawny grove]

oh i forgot to remove that ,b

mb

[wintry quarry]

Also which one is the red and which is the blue between player.transform and this.transform

[tawny grove]

player in the middle

[wintry quarry]

then you want this.transform.position - player.transform.position

if you want the direction from the player to this object

dir from A to B is B - A

[tawny grove]

alright, btw is there a reason for using this.tranform instead of just transform?

[wintry quarry]

I'm just being explicit

they will be the same

[tawny grove]

oh okay

[rancid tinsel]

Could someone explain to me why setting variables in inspector vs programmatically is considered bad practice? The obvious is that you can lose those references (when errors happen, moving scripts etc) but are there other reasons?

[tawny grove]

would this (player and ghost) not be like 150*? im getting -170 which would be in the third sector( below left of player)

[wintry quarry]

what's the player

the blue shirt guy?

[tawny grove]

yeah

[wintry quarry]

Ok so:

The angle returned is the signed counterclockwise angle between the two vectors.
according to: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Vector2.SignedAngle.html